Black and Blue

Chapter 9 [Flashback]

Genavive was cleaning up her room because Andrew was coming over to her house.

The entire week he'd irritated her and annoyed her about tutoring him and finally when she agreed, he was glowing like a newly created light bulb.

Genavive felt nice about spending time with Andrew but she aslo knew that she was irresistibly attracted to the guy. This wasn't an issue a few days ago, but now that Genavive and Jason were trying to mend things, she wasn't sure where Andrew stood in her life.

Yes sure, he'd helped her out that night and he was really sweet and they had a cute dynamic going on between them and he was totally hot and..

BUT NO!

She was giving Jason another try.

Imagine Christine's reaction to this.

When she got to know that Genavive was making it work with Jason, she lost it, but Christine knew better than to raise this up with her again.

So here Genavive was trying to tidy up her messy room for a guy she wanted to desperately avoid but couldn't.

While Genavive was placing the clothes neatly into her cupboard, Emily knocked on her door.

"Yeah mom, come in."

Emily entered the room with a cup of green tea in her hand. She was impressed to see Genavive finally cleaning up her room.

"Wow, never thought I'd see this day Gen!"

Genavive groaned, "My room looked fine just the way it was."

Emily chuckled as she sat down on the bean bag placed in the corner of her daughter's room.

"Then why the effort?"

Genavive shut her cupboard and moved to cleaning her desk.

"I have a friend coming over."

Genavive started stacking all the papers kept on her desk. Whenever she did research, she'd print it out to make footnotes on it. She could do it on her computer but she really preferred printed sheets to PDFs.

"Ohh, a friend other than Christine? That's news." Emily enquired before sipping on her green tea. It was close to November and it was getting really cold in New York. It was officially winter season.

"Yeah there's this really annoying guy who just joined our school. He needs help to cover the first half of the portion in Physics so I'm helping him with that."

Emily raised her eyebrows. "Is it the same guy who dropped you home a few days ago?"

Genavive furrowed her eyebrows, stopped what she was doing and turned towards her mother, "Were you spying on me, MOM?"

Emily grinned, "I was just awake in my room trying to find my reading glasses and I noticed a car stop by our house. That's all."

Genavive squinted her eyes but went back to cleaning the room.

"Tell me more about this boy who's coming home."

"His name is Andrew Slevensky. He just moved in to New York from Texas. Like I said he's damn annoying but he's really nice actually. I think he's dating a blonde - that's another reason he's annoying."

Emily chuckled but went full serious. "What did I tell you about making generalizations about people?"

Genavive groaned, "Mom please! Psychology is based on making generalizations. If out of a hundred thousands blondes I've met, say 80% of them are superficial, crazy and dumb what would you deduce from that?"